A Flexible and Extensible Architecture for Device-Level Service Deployment

  • Authors:
  • Thomas Frenken;Patrik Spiess;Jürgen Anke

  • Affiliations:
  • SAP Research CEC Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany;SAP Research CEC Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany;ubigrate GmbH,

  • Venue:
  • ServiceWave '08 Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Towards a Service-Based Internet
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Integration of functionality and information from the Internet of Things (IoT) into the Internet of Services (IoS) is highly desirable but a complex endeavour. One hard to realize aspect is the remote deployment and configuration of services. While this has become commonplace in the business back-end, it is still a topic of research for networked embedded systems, mainly due to great heterogeneity. In this paper, we focus on remote management issues and propose a flexible and extensible architecture for systems performing deployment and configuration of services. The architecture is mainly targeted at environments comprising a large number of networked embedded devices, therefore integrating them effectively with the IoS. The key method of dealing with the observed heterogeneity is the dynamic exchange of algorithms (strategies) for steps of a common deployment process during runtime by configuration. Further on, we present an implementation of the architecture within the domain of future manufacturing.